Wombats have nearly impermeable rear ends, which serve as both a crucial defense against predators and a key feature in their mating rituals.
The land down under has its fair share of natural wonders that are captivating, and sometimes downright frightening. Australia’s biodiversity is so unique that most of the one million species of flora and fauna found there occur nowhere else in the world.
Don’t be fooled though—an adult wombat can weigh up to 90 pounds, sprint at a speed of 25 mph and do some serious damage if it choses to. If attacked, a wombat’s first line of defense is an unexpected one. It will promptly turn around and display its rump to the offender. This is a surprising instinct for any animal, given that turning your back on your attacker is usually the most inadvisable step one can take.
Wombats dig several burrows in their territory, and will quickly slip into one of these if disturbed, with its rump plugging the entry of the burrow. The rump can withstand bites, scratches and other forms of attack effectively, until the predator tires out and moves on. It’s not just the males that are hostile in their approach—when females are in the most fertile time of their reproductive cycles, they too will chase and bite the rumps of males.
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